Lights, camera, draw: share your animations

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Whether you're a professional or an enthusiastic novice with just a smartphone, pen and paper, we’d like to see your animations. It can be an animation made especially for this project or one you made earlier, we don't mind, but please make sure it is under three minutes long.

Don't forget: you must not include any commercial music in your film.

Update: we've extended the deadline for entries to the GuardianWitness original short film award category to 10am GMT Thursday 30 January – so if you submit your animation before then, it will also be considered for the award.

Read Sofronis Efstathiou's, senior lecturer in animation at Bournemouth university, tips on how to get started – and what makes a great animation.

Our son Sam made this when he was 9 years old, he disappeared off to his bedroom one rainy afternoon, and emerged 3 hours later having made his first animation. I love the way he used an eraser to animate with...

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